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grant balfour

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Eye implant reverses blindness

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2025/10/30

Nature reports on an electronic retinal implant that has successfully allowed people with age-related macular degeneration to see again: The implant, which measures 2 millimetres by … Read the rest “Eye implant reverses blindness” The post Eye implant reverses blindness first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Satellites are the weak link in keeping secrets.

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2025/10/30

Wired has an unsettling bit of tech reporting on how easy it is to see nearly all of our secrets with about $800 worth of equipment. Phone calls, internet searches, Signal chats, troop positions,… Read the rest “Satellites are the weak link in keeping secrets.” The post Satellites are the weak link in keeping secrets. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)

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2025/10/25

SONG: “What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)”. (OGG version here.)ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine”… Read the rest “SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)” The post SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade) first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Covid vaccine boosts life-saving cancer treatment.

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2025/10/23

Nature just released a “huh, go figure!” bit of preliminary research showing better outcomes for patients with melanoma or lung cancer who had a COVID-19 vaccination within… Read the rest “Covid vaccine boosts life-saving cancer treatment.” The post Covid vaccine boosts life-saving cancer treatment. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Making embryos from human skin

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2025/10/22

BBC recently reported on scientists taking DNA from human skin cells and fertilizing it with sperm to create a non-egg embryo – or at least an embryo with someone else’s DNA… Read the rest “Making embryos from human skin” The post Making embryos from human skin first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.

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2025/10/21

Northeastern Global News reports on a positive use for artificial intelligence, with a system that outperforms other techniques by helping doctors spot potentially deadly skin cancers… Read the rest “AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.” The post AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of...

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2025/10/20

Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move inside a protein molecule. Here’s the description… Read the rest “Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase” The post Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025

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2025/10/13

This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). The official credit is: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko,… Read the rest “Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025” The post Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China

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2025/10/13

PhysOrg reports on archaeologists studying “bone modification,” a custom that seems to have been practiced among the first city-dwellers in southern China, who set up a … Read the rest “Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China” The post Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles

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2025/10/03

Reuters reports on a discover discovered in southern Argentina that apparently outdid T. rex and carnosaurus in its ferocity. A fossil of the colossal Cretaceous hunter was found with … Read the rest “Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles”The post Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.

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2025/10/03

Is it worse? No, according to Science Alert. They’re sharing research that shows musical training actually increases tolerance for pain: Research has also found that persistent … Read the rest “Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.” The post Musicians don’t feel pain like other people. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s...

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2025/09/29

Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble predator, moreso than some… Read the rest “Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix” The post Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Dirt Poor

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2025/09/25

SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.)ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and social… Read the rest “SONG: Dirt Poor” The post SONG: Dirt Poor first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942

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2025/09/21

This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns the Hard Rock Cafe brand, has … Read the rest “Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942” The post Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Computers are beating humans at predicting future...

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2025/09/21

Time (not a science magazine, but…) has a story on the Metaculus forecasting cup (not a scientific experiment, but…), which offers a $5,000 prize to members who successfully… Read the rest “Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes.” The post Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin,...

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2025/09/15

These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler. According to his Wikipedia article… Read the rest “Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB”The post Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.

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2025/09/11

ScienceAlert reports on a brain-scan study that finds the loss of smell — apparently triggered by a misfiring immune response in the brain — may give patients an earlier warning… Read the rest “Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.” The post Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.

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2025/09/10

IFL Science has some new findings about people with aphantasia — that is, people who don’t have an inner movie-screen playing thoughts as images. There are more of them than… Read the rest “Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.” The post Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.

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2025/09/09

News Atlas reports on an industrial-scale sand battery that is replacing a woodchip-fired power plant in Pornainen, Finland, with clean heat and energy: It’s set to reduce carbon … Read the rest “Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.” The post Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because...

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2025/09/08

PhysOrg redefines what “attractive” is for the deep-sea set, thanks to a study that has found male ghost sharks grow a retractable, tooth-covered rod out of their foreheads… Read the rest “Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.” The post Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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